Want to be a superhero? This Mask may help you become one

Washington: 'Iron Man' fans, rejoice! Researchers claim to have developed two 3-D printed masks that can give wearer superhuman sight and hearing.

One of the masks covers the wearer's ears, mouth and nose and uses a directional microphone to give him the ability to hear an isolated sound in a noisy environment.

Iron Man wearing his mask. Picture courtesy: Facebook

With the mask, developed by a group of students at the Royal College of Art in London, the user could select a person in a crowd and clearly hear his words without any surrounding noise, 'Mashable' website reported.

The other prototype is to be worn over one's eyes. A camera captures video and sends it to a computer, which can apply a set of effects to it in real-time and send it back to the user.

The wearer can use the mask to see movement patterns, similar to the effects of long-exposure photography.